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To: tejek who wrote (68275)	1/18/2010 11:17:51 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) of 149317

If Joan walsh is correct and the Obama's people never cared about movement building (progressive agenda), then why should we progressives support him? Last week Tech President's Micah Sifry wrote critically in these pages questioning how real the Obama "movement" ever was. His people-power campaign certainly benefited from an outpouring of money and gruntwork from starry-eyed progressives, many of them young, to get elected. But he also relied on the largesse of the financial, insurance and real estate sector as well as and the votes of independents who weren't necessarily embracing the liberal agenda advanced by Obama's "movement" voters – they just wanted change, and fast. Sifry sees the Obama team's failure to develop an early and far-reaching agenda for its grassroots supporters as proof that they never cared about movement-building, merely about getting elected. I mostly share that view, and yet Obama's sermon today – it wasn't really a speech – provoked a few second thoughts.

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